Eigrp unequal load balancing problem

From: ccie2be (ccie2be@nyc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 16:02:17 GMT-3

Hi guys,

Here's the scenario:

                               2 mbps
R1 -----64k ----- R2 ========= R3
                               1 mbps

All routers are running Eigrp. R2 and R3 have unequal load balancing
configured.

Traffic between R2's lo0 and R3's lo0 unequal load balances perfectly.
However, traffic between R1's lo0 and R3's lo0 don't
unequal load balance. In this case, traffic is balanced equally across the 2
links between R2 and R3.

The reason for this is that from R3's point of view, the 2 paths to R1 have an
equal cost, not an unequal cost because the metric Eigrp uses is based on the
minimum bandwidth link from source to destination which in this case is the
64k link between R2 and R1.

Is it possible to reconfigure the network so that R3 sees the 2 paths to R1 as
having different costs?

And, if so, how can that be done?

TIA, Tim

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